Vanity Pet Collecting

By -
August 12, 2009

Vanity
Pet Collecting

There
are over 100 vanity pets available in World of
Warcraft, without the special promotional pets, or trading card pets.
Collecting 50 – 75 of these pets can be a challenge as most
of these pets are
rare drops from specific mobs throughout Azeroth, only available to get
during
one of the WoW Seasons, or requires high reputation with a specific
faction.

Here
is my guide, listing over 100 vanity pets available in
the game.

Alliance
Pets

Each
of the Alliance races has their own pets that you can purchase near or
in their
major city.

[protip] For the Horde:
There is another way to get Alliance Pets besides fishing the Auction
House and paying a large amount for an Alliance Pet. You will need a
friend to help. Have this person help guide your new Alliance character
to a Neutral Auction house, there you can put something cheap up in the
Neutral Auction house (ie: a Shiny Apple) for 100 Gold, this will give
you enough Gold to buy all of the Alliance pets. Then just create a new
character of each of the races, leaving the character at the Neutral
Auction House. You can send money to each of the characters and mail
all the pets gathered to the character sitting at the Neutral Auction
House. Your Horde friend, will then have to buy your Alliance Pets for
you from the Auction House. A second person on a different account is
needed, as you cannot purchase or bid on anything that any character
from your account has put on the Auction House. [/protip]

This pet is only sold by
Lil Timmy, a little human boy who wanders in Stormwind City and sells
only 1 every 3 hours.

Argent
Tournament Pets

Each
of the races sells their own vanity pet that you can purchase through
daily
rewards. They are not soulbound when purchased so they can be traded or
sold.

Horde
can obtain these Alliance pets (with the exception of Argent Squire,
which is
Alliance-only)
if they are being sold
in the Neutral Auction House.

Name

Cost

From

Ammen
Vale Lashling (Draenei)

40
Champion’s Seal

Irisee
(Silver
Covenant Pavilion, Argent Tournament Grounds)

Argent
Squire
(Alliance only)

A
Champion Rises
(Quest Reward)

Depending
on what
race you are, one of the Grand Champions will reward you the Squire.

Dun
Morogh Cub
(Dwarf)

40
Champion’s Seal

Derrick Brindlebeard(Silver
Covenant
Pavilion, Argent Tournament

Elwynn
Lamb (Human)

40
Champion’s Seal

Corporal
Arthur Flew(Silver
Covenant
Pavilion, Argent Tournament

Mechanopeep
(Gnome)

40
Champion’s Seal

Rillie Spindlenut(Silver
Covenant
Pavilion, Argent Tournament

Teldrassil
Sproutling
(Night Elf)

40
Champion’s Seal

Rook
Hawkfist(Silver
Covenant
Pavilion, Argent Tournament

Horde Pets

Each
of the Horde races has their own pets that you can purchase near or in
their
major city.

[protip] For the Alliance:
There is another
way to get Horde Pets besides fishing the Auction House and paying a
large amount for a Horde Pet. You will need a friend to help. Have
this person help guide your new Horde character to a Neutral
Auction house, there you can put something cheap up in the Neutral
Auction house (ie: a Shiny Apple) for 100 Gold, this will give you
enough Gold to buy all of the Horde pets. Then just create a new
character of each of the races, leaving the character at the Neutral
Auction House. You can send money to each of the characters and mail
all the pets gathered to the character sitting at the Neutral Auction
House. Your Alliance friend, will then have to buy your Horde Pets for
you from the Auction House. A second person on a different account is
needed, as you cannot purchase or bid on anything that any character
from your account has put on the Auction House. [/protip]

Orc/Troll
Pets

Alliance
races can also buy Crimson Snake from Dealer Rashaad, located in
Stormspire,
Netherstorm.

Name

Cost

From

Black
Kingsnake

50
Silver

Xan’tish
(Roams in
The Valley of Spirits, Orgrimmar)

Brown
Snake

50
Silver

Xan’tish
(Roams in
The Valley of Spirits, Orgrimmar)

Crimson
Snake

50
Silver

Xan’tish
(Roams in
The Valley of Spirits, Orgrimmar)

Blood Elf Pets

Name

Cost

From

Red
Dragonhawk Hatchling

50 Silver

Jilanne
(Fairbreeze Village, Eversong Woods)

Golden
Dragonhawk Hatchling

50
Silver

Jilanne
(Fairbreeze Village, Eversong Woods)

Silver
Dragonhawk Hatchling

50 Silver

Jilanne
(Fairbreeze Village, Eversong Woods)

Tauren Pet

Name

Cost

From

Brown
Prairie Dog

50 Silver

Halpa
(In a tent behind Cairne Bloodhoof's, Thunder Bluff)

Undead Pet

Alliance
races can also buy the Cockroach from Dealer Rashaad located in
Stormspire, Netherstorm for 50 Silver.

Name

Cost

From

Cockroach

50 Silver

Jeremiah Payson
(Underneath steps in the Trade Quarter, Undercity

Argent
Tournament Pets

Each
of the races sells their own vanity pet that you can purchase through
daily
rewards. They are not soulbound when purchased so they can be traded or
sold.

Alliance
can obtain these Horde pets (with the exception of Argent Gruntling,
which is Horde-only)
if they are being sold in the
Neutral Auction House.

Name

Cost

From

Argent
Gruntling (Horde only)

A Champion Rises (Quest
Reward)

Depending on what race
you are, one of the Grand Champions will reward you the Gruntling.

Vendor
Pets

Easily
obtainable pets, as they are available to both Horde and Alliance
characters.
All you have to do is find the merchant and have the money available to
buy
your pets.

Name

Cost

Location/From

Ancona
Chicken

1 Gold

Magus Tirth
(Mirage Raceway, Shimmering Flats, Thousand Needles)

Blue
Dragonhawk Hatchling

10 Gold

Dealer
Rashaad
(Stormspire, Netherstorm)

Brown
Rabbit

10 Gold

Dealer Rashaad
(Stormspire, Netherstorm)

Cockatiel

40
Silver

Narkk
(Old Port Authority, Booty Bay)

Ghostly
Skull

40 Gold

Darahir
(The Underbelly, Dalaran)

Mana
Wyrmling

40 Gold

Dealer
Rashaad
(Stormspire, Netherstorm)

Obsidian
Hatchling

40 Gold

Breanni
(Magical Menagerie, Dalaran)

Red Moth

10 Gold

Dealer
Rashaad
(Stormspire, Netherstorm)

Senegal

40 Silver

40 Silver

Narkk
(Old Port Authority, Booty Bay)

Dealer Rashaad
(Stormspire, Netherstorm)

Siamese
Cat

60
Silver

Dealer
Rashaad
(Stormspire, Netherstorm)

Tree
Frog

1 Gold

Flik
(Darkmoon Faire, Elwynn Forest, Mulgore or Terokkar Forest)

Wood
Frog

1 Gold

Flik
(Darkmoon Faire, Elwynn Forest, Mulgore or Terokkar Forest)

Dropped
Pets

All
of these pets are extremely difficult to get, but it is possible.
Sometimes you
may get lucky and get a pet within 3 kills (has happened), or very
unlucky and
spend hours of slaughtering the same mobs for 3 hours and never see it
drop.

[protip]
Some
of the new raptors have a 100% (guaranteed) chance of dropping off of
rare
spawns in specific zones. There are two ways to find these rare mobs:
1) create a macro with the rare spawn's name (ie. /Target Dart) while
you are running around it's pathing area, or if the rare mob stays in a
small area, just check in once in awhile and click the macro a few
times to see if it's there. 2) Another way, and easier way, is to
download the Addon NPC Scan. This works just like the /target macro
only you do not have to smash the button, and will alert you when it
has found something. It can be difficult sometimes to find the rare
spawn once you have it targeted, having a Focusing Lens will come in
handy, it show and point you in the direction that your target is
at.[/protip]

Any of the Bloodsail
pirates along the Wild Shore southeast of Booty Bay, Stranglethorn Vale

Leaping
Hatchling

100%

Takk
the Leaper, level 19 rare elite
(Roams around The Sludge Fen and along the east side of the mountain to
the south of The Sludge Fen, northern Barrens)
**Found him far south of The Sludge Fen along the mountain side, not
far from Far Watch Post**

All
of these pets are easily obtainable (with the exception of Sprite
Darter
Hatchling for Horde members); all you need to do is find the person who
starts
the quest and complete it to receive the pet as a reward.

World
Event Pets

A
lot of Seasonal World Events have pets available for players to
purchase, or
have a chance of dropping from specific places or mobs.

Children’s
Week has the most pets available out of all the seasons, the downside
is, in
order to collect all of the pets, you have to wait a whole year in
order to
redo the quests and obtain another pet.

Children’s
Week

Name

From

Location

Curious
Oracle Hatchling

Orphan Matron Aria

Dalaran

Curious
Wolvar Pup

Orphan
Matron Aria

Dalaran

Egbert

Orphan Matron Mercy

Lower City, Shattrath
City

Mr.
Wiggles

Orphan
Matron Battlewail (Horde)

Oprhan Matron Nightingale (Alliance)

Valley
of Honor, Orgimmar

Cathedral Square, Stormwind City

Peanut

Orphan Matron Mercy

Lower City, Shattrath
City

Speedy

Orphan
Matron Battlewail (Horde)

Orphan Matron Nightingale (Alliance)

Valley
of Honor, Orgrimmar

Cathedral Square, Stormwind City

Whiskers
the Rat

Orphan Matron Battlewail
(Horde)

Orphan Matron Nightingale (Alliance)

Valley of Honor,
Orgrimmar

Cathedral Square, Stormwind City

Willy

Orphan
Matron Mercy

Lower
City, Shattrath City

Winterveil

All
of the pets available during Winterveil require a snowball in order to
summon.
Snowballs can be acquired year round in snowy areas in Azeroth.

Name

From

Location

Father
Winter's Helper

Chance
of getting pet
by opening a Present Box under the Christmas Tree.

Under
the Christmas
Tree in Orgrimmar or Ironforge.

Tiny
Snowman

Chance
of getting pet
by opening a Present Box under the Christmas Tree.

Under
the Christmas
Tree in Orgrimmar or Ironforge.

Winter
Reindeer

Chance
of getting pet
by opening a Present Box under the Christmas Tree.

Under
the Christmas
Tree in Orgrimmar or Ironforge.

Winter's
Little Helper

Chance
of getting pet
by opening a Present Box under the Christmas Tree.

Higher
Learning: These
books spawn in specific locations throughout Dalaran.
The Ledgermain Lounge (2 books)
-One on the empty bookshelf by the northwest entrance - farthest from the
stairs.
-One is on the empty bookshelf in the upstairs room on the left.
The Violet Citadel (2 books)
-One will be on the first floor to your right, facing in, on the left bookshelf.
-One is upstairs, next to the Caverns of Time portal on the floor between the bookshelves.
The Threads of Fate (1 book)
-Upstairs on the balcony, the book will spawn on a crate to your right as you are facing away from the door.
The Dalaran Visiting Center (1 book)
-To your right as you are facing into the room, on the ground, between the
two chairs.
The Violet Hold (1 book)
-Will spawn by the
normal daily dungeon quest giver on a crate.
The Violet Gate (1 book)
-The room with the
Portal Trainer, will be to your right as you are facing into the room
and on the floor to the right of the bookshelf.

[protip] The books are not there at all times and will disappear after
a short time, sometimes you will find placeholder books in place of the
School of Arcane Magic books. You can sit and wait at each of the spawn
points and hope for a book to show. The absolute best time to visit all
the locations as soon as possible is after rolling restarts or right
when the servers come up from a patch. This will cause all locations to
spawn a book! Try to visit them all as quickly as
possible before the
books despawn, if you are lucky none of them spawned a placeholder and
you can get your achievement done quickly.[/protip]